208990 – media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.3.6 - Nimbus Sans looks strange

Bug 208990 - media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.3.6 - Nimbus Sans looks strange

Summary: media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.3.6 - Nimbus Sans looks strange

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Fonts Team

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Reported:	2008-02-05 11:51 UTC by Christian Speckner
Modified:	2021-02-15 02:26 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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urw-fonts-2.1-r2 (urw-old.jpg,117.39 KB, image/jpeg) 2008-02-05 23:42 UTC, Christian Speckner	Details
urw-fonts-2.4.6 (urw-new.jpg,119.72 KB, image/jpeg) 2008-02-05 23:43 UTC, Christian Speckner	Details
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Description Christian Speckner 2008-02-05 11:51:45 UTC

After the last update, I noticed my desktop looked different. After some poking around I found that with urw-fonts-2.3.6, nimbus sans appears to have some additional space above every character making it look strange. Reverting back to urw-fonts-2.1-r2 cured the problem.

I'm not sure if this warrants a bug report, but since the upgrade makes anything using the font look really different, a ewarn about this would possibly be OK.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-05 12:34:58 UTC

Can you attach some screenshots perhaps?

Comment 2 Christian Speckner 2008-02-05 23:42:11 UTC

Created attachment 142757 [details]
urw-fonts-2.1-r2

Comment 3 Christian Speckner 2008-02-05 23:43:25 UTC

Created attachment 142759 [details]
urw-fonts-2.4.6

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-05 23:46:22 UTC

Reopen or noone will notice again.

Comment 5 Christian Speckner 2008-02-05 23:50:33 UTC

OK, I attached two screenshots. Apart from urw-fonts (and windows focus) there is no difference between them. Please observe the window decorations that get enlarged due to the additional space.

Comment 6 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-21 06:03:45 UTC

Thank you for report Christian. I've added elog message in media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.3.6. FIXED.

Comment 7 Diogo Pereira 2018-07-13 23:25:05 UTC

Given that urw-fonts-2.1-r2 was removed from the tree nearly 9 years ago, I think it would be a good idea to remove the elog and stop pointing users at this ancient and by now irrelevant bug.